Art by Olivia Hollard @beyondameteurart Mildly Mysterious Art Manifesting at Kiwiburn By Hayley Ware and Fergus Bassett In the second exciting installment of the Paddock Art Series, I’ve been chatting to Fergus Bassett who is bringing an exciting,...
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Paddock Art Series #1: Nebula
Karl de Jong’s 2017 Paddock Art, 'Birdie McBirdface'. Photo by Tangent Awesome Art Coming to the Grand Bizarre! By Hayley Ware It’s that time of year when everyone is hard at work planning, designing, creating and constructing fantastic creations to...
Adopt a Burner
Veteran Kiwiburners and aspiring Kiwiburners helping each other out By Hayley Ware Hi, I’m Hayley, and 2017 was my first Kiwiburn! I was lucky enough to have a group of experienced friends to go with, though I know that’s not the case for...
Respecting contributions of art
‘Helping Hand’ by Nico. Photo by Tangent THIS IS A SPECIAL PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT from the Kiwiburn Pro-Art Protection Agency A unique part of the incredible world we encounter on the Paddock is the fabulous art to be discovered there. The nature of...
Kiwiburn ticketing
Yes, Kiwiburn had printed tickets for a few years! This one is from 2008. Kiwiburn has changed ticketing vendors for the 2018 event. Built by Burners, Quicket has amazing features specifically for Burn events. Key changes: There is a ticket transfer...
Bringing art to Kiwiburn from across the ocean
Photo of Shadows by Peter Jennings In 2017, a group of artists from Seattle applied for an Art Grant and brought their interactive light and sound sculpture, Shadows, to Kiwiburn. An equilateral triangle (2.5m sides) suspended, point down. The edges of the triangle...
Consent Culture within the Kiwiburn Community I Part two: Navigating situations
Photo by Georjie Adams PART TWO: Navigating Situations Welcome to part two of our consent culture blog. If you missed the previous blog about boundaries, check it out here. This week we are exploring how to stay aware of other’s boundaries and what to do if you...
Consent Culture within the Kiwiburn Community I Part one: Boundaries
Photo by Amy Potenger PART ONE: Boundaries A two-part blog exploring how our community can do better when it comes to consent culture. This first blog discusses boundaries – what they are, how to create them, and what to do when they are crossed. The second...
The Operations Team responds to your 2017 Census feedback
Kiwiburn’s Operations Team Lead, Poppy has taken the time to respond to your questions and comments from this year’s Census. Her role involves overseeing and supporting all the onsite departments, Team Leads and managers, as well as liaising with the Council,...
Volunteering for Kiwiburn
By Karl Matthews, Volunteer Team Co-Lead Kiwiburn is almost entirely organised and operated by volunteers, without whom there would be no Kiwiburn. The organisation is in a significant period of change with many of our wonderful Team Leads deciding to step down or...